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Reminiscence's of Levi Coffin T o"-^
(Second Edition.)/
MARGARET GARNER. [January, 1856 i< This case aroused very deep interest and sympathy being the case of a sla-ve mother who killed her child rather than see it taken back to slavery, x x The Ohio River was frozen over at times, thus affording the opportunity to slaves to escape to a free State. A party of 17, belonging to different masters in the same neighborhood several miles back in Kentucky- es- ; caped on a s_led with two horses, snow being on the / ground, one Sabbath Lp.558] night. At daylight they reached the Ohio River below Covington, opposite Vifestern Row. They crossed the river on foot and divided into parties .
An old slave man man named Simon, and his wife Mary, together with their son Robert and his wife ^'iargaret Garner and four children made their way to the house of a colored man named Kite, which was Uj-ow Mill Creek, in the lower part of Cincinnati. As they had. inquired their way, they could be traced, having been seen by a number of persons. ^he other 9 fugitives made their way up town and found friends who conducted them to safe hiding- places where they remained until jiight. ^-^'hey were then » / put on the '-'ndetground Railroad and went through, to Canada.

Prom
Reminiscence's of Levi Coffin T o"-^
(Second Edition.)/
MARGARET GARNER. [January, 1856 i< This case aroused very deep interest and sympathy being the case of a sla-ve mother who killed her child rather than see it taken back to slavery, x x The Ohio River was frozen over at times, thus affording the opportunity to slaves to escape to a free State. A party of 17, belonging to different masters in the same neighborhood several miles back in Kentucky- es- ; caped on a s_led with two horses, snow being on the / ground, one Sabbath Lp.558] night. At daylight they reached the Ohio River below Covington, opposite Vifestern Row. They crossed the river on foot and divided into parties .
An old slave man man named Simon, and his wife Mary, together with their son Robert and his wife ^'iargaret Garner and four children made their way to the house of a colored man named Kite, which was Uj-ow Mill Creek, in the lower part of Cincinnati. As they had. inquired their way, they could be traced, having been seen by a number of persons. ^he other 9 fugitives made their way up town and found friends who conducted them to safe hiding- places where they remained until jiight. ^-^'hey were then » / put on the '-'ndetground Railroad and went through, to Canada.